Self-promotion? No. An educational opportunity.
Your author has a new article up on Yemen in the Jamestown Foundation's Terrorism Focus.
Want a teaser? Why not?
Yemen is running out of water. Its economy is one of the weakest in the world. Its second-most powerful and influential political figure, Shaykh Abdullah al-Ahmar, recently died, and Saleh is trying to manage the transition to his own successor. These are fragile and trying times in the country. The attacks were a message to Saleh, and to the global community, that the chaos-producing strategy of al-Qaeda in Iraq, achieved despite being only a small part of the insurgency, is now being exported to the militants' homelands.
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